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News, Tim Schedl

Seven WashU faculty elected to AAAS (Links to an external site)

The Source March 27, 2025
Seven WashU faculty elected to AAAS
Seven faculty members at Washington University in St. Louis are among the 471 new fellows selected by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), one of the most distinct honors in the scientific community. Congratulations to Dr. Tim Schedl on his election to AAAS.
Guoyan Zhao, News

Dr. Guoyan Zhao selected for the Hope Center Pilot Grant

By January 31, 2025
Dr. Guoyan Zhao selected for the Hope Center Pilot Grant
Congratulations to Dr. Guoyan Zhao and co-investigator Dr. Hiroko Yano for being selected for the Hope Center Pilot Grant! The project “Identification and validation of drug candidates for repurposing in Huntington disease” will be funded in full $100,000 for the award period of January 1, 2025 – December 31, 2026!
Jin, News, Student Award

Graduate student Emma Casey awarded NINDS Diversity Supplement

By January 31, 2025
Graduate student Emma Casey awarded NINDS Diversity Supplement
Emma Casey, a second year PhD student in the Jin lab has been awarded a highly competitive NINDS Diversity Supplement to work on characterizing and assessing the impact of mitochondrial DNA variations in congenital hydrocephalus. Emma is the first trainee from the Department of Genetics to receive the significant 3-year NIH grant award totaling $225K. Congratulations!
News, Ting Wang

$14 million supports work to diversify human genome research (Links to an external site)

School of Medicine news release January 21, 2025
$14 million supports work to diversify human genome research
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has received two large grants renewing funding for the Human Pangenome Reference Sequencing Project. This ambitious program began in 2019 with the goal of increasing the diversity of human genome sequences that are pooled into the widely used reference genome. A thorough representation of human genetic diversity can help researchers discover how genetic variation contributes to disease and perhaps offer new routes to innovative treatments.

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